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Objective statement
EDUCATE AND SHARE INFORMATION ON THE REDUCTION
OF GREENHOUSE GAS through seminars, workshops, web site, worship, green
tips, displays, library materials, etc. made available to the Fairlawn community
starting this spring and continuing in the coming years.
CREATE A “FAIRLAWN GREEN ACTION” LOGO to represent our greening
program that is recognizable in the community and can appear on our signs, in
our web site, and on all printed communications.
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Status
The Communication Action Team continues to update the Fairlawn Green Action
Web Site, send out emails to our "green" distribution list, provide green tips
in the Sunday Bulletin, encourage people to influence politicians and
governments, provide information at our Green Table at coffee hour.
We advertise green events throughout the city, make presentations in
the community, such as the Yonge Street Green Walk and the seminar
"Getting a green team started at your
organization" at Green Awakening conferences. We organize activities such as Clean Up Day, and network with other green agencies such as the Toronto Green
Community, Greening Sacred Spaces, Green Awakening Network, Eglinton St.
George's Church and Glenview Presbyterian.
Click here to get all the
details of what we have been doing.
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One of our first activities was to create the
Fairlawn Green Action logo that appears on this web site and on our flyers. Our focus is "Think globally. Act locally."
This "Fairlawn Green Action" web site has been
created and expanded, updated weekly, providing tips, interesting reading,
announcements of what's happening around the globe, inspiring quotes,
notification of seminars, conferences, workshops, rallies, marches and film
festivals in the city and at Fairlawn. The web site is structured to be
relevant to members of both the Fairlawn Neighbourhood Centre and Fairlawn
Avenue United Church.
The Green Team's "Green Quiz" to test the Recycling
knowledge has been a big hit, stimulating questions about recycling.
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The email "Green Tips"
are sent regularly to our distribution list, such as the tip on composting at home
called "Waste
Today, Soil Tomorrow". If you haven't been receiving these, but
would like to be on the distribution list for the Green Tips, contact Fairlawn
Green Action at
fairlawngreenteam@gmail.com. News and status
of our "Fairlawn Green Action" initiatives appear each Sunday in the Fairlawn
Bulletin.
We promote city and global events such as
seminars, green film festivals, Earth
Hour, Earth Day, the Commuter Challenge, etc. to encourage people to change
their habits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Green Resource Corner is available in the
Fairlawn library to browse or sign out any of the material.
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